In the following months, the emperor lost three princes, and his health did not improve for a long time, and he has been lingering on the sickbed, but even so, the major affairs of the court and government have not been wasted, but fortunately, the country is now stable, the four seas are peaceful, and there is no internal strife, or foreign invasion.

There are only more than ten concubines left in the emperor's harem, the huge harem obviously seems relatively empty, but the ministers of the court and the central government dare not mention the matter of the draft, if the emperor is healthy, then it is okay, the ministers must have squeezed their heads to think about sending the daughters of the family into the palace, in order to look forward to getting the emperor's favor, and then one person will ascend to heaven, but the emperor is now lingering on the sickbed, aging rapidly, the daughters of the ministers of the court are carefully cultivated, for the future marriage, the emperor's situation, let them be unpredictable, no one wants to send their carefully cultivated daughter into the palace to oneThe people who are "dying" are concubines, and those concubines who can't get on the stage are willing to be sent to the palace to fight, and the emperor is not blind, and it is strange to look at those concubines who have no etiquette and ordinary appearance!

This time, Chu Yunxiu, the fifth prince, was responsible for dealing with the aftermath of the rebellion of the eldest prince, and the officials of the eldest prince's faction, headed by the Pingxi Palace, were either degraded or killed, or exiled, and for a while the officials in the court and the central government were vacant, and the five princes and the fourth prince and others took the opportunity to arrange their own people among them, and even the top 20 in this year's imperial examination had encountered a good opportunity, and one by one they were left in Beijing and were not released.

The new champion is Jiang Hongyi, the second son of the Jiang family's third room, because of his outstanding literary talent, he is even better than Jiang Hongxuan's eldest brother, and he has encountered a good time, so he directly became the cabinet attendant of the sixth grade, there is a saying in the court, the prime minister is not out of the cabinet, and the prime minister is left and right in the court, and after several changes, without exception, they are all from the cabinet, and for a time Jiang Hongyi, the second son of the Jiang family's third room, is very favored by the princes and nobles of Lin'ancheng, and the ministers want to marry their daughters to Jiang Hongyi.

In addition to Jiang Hongyi, the Jiang family also has a four-room Jiang Hongjing, who also participated in the imperial examination at the age of fifteen, although it is also the top 20 in the palace examination, but it is the eighteenth at the end, because of the tail, it is naturally impossible to be the same as Jiang Hongyi, Jiang Hongjing was originally arranged in the position of the eight-pin pen tip of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but Jiang Hongjing was not happy to see that Jiang Hongyi, the son of the three-room, was the cabinet attendant of the sixth grade, so he took the silver money and went to the door, plus the four princes who had dealings with him secretly mentioned the point, Jiang Hongjing was inconvenient to change from the pen tips of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the eighth grade, and turned into a cabinet member like Jiang Hongyi, although there was only one level difference between the two, but the official position is three levels apart, the cabinet attendant is the official position of the sixth grade, and the cabinet secretary is the official position of the seventh grade.

In addition to Jiang Hongyi and Jiang Hongxuan, Jiang Hongxuan, who was a tanhualang three years ago, served as the editor of the six-grade Hanlin Academy, directly crossed the six-grade Hanlin Academy, and changed from the five-grade Hanlin Academy to the five-grade Hanlin Academy, which is changed every three years, this time it is exactly three years, Jiang Hongxuan is twenty-two years old, he can rely on his own strength, and he can become the five-grade Hanlin Academy attendant without the shade, one is already good, although it cannot be compared with those nobles, but according to the Jiang family's current in-laws, it is a matter of time before he ascends to the throne。

In the palace, the emperor rested in the Qianqing Palace today, because of physical discomfort, so the emperor did not summon the concubines, but one morning in November, the emperor's Qianqing Palace suddenly came out of a holy decree, canonizing a palace maid who served in front of the emperor as the eight products of the permanent presence, in addition to the holy decree of the harem, Ye Guifei was promoted to the imperial concubine, in charge of the affairs of the harem, the biological mother of the second prince, and now in the harem the depressed and unhappy Concubine De was promoted to Wang Guifei, the eldest princess and the third princess's biological mother Shufei Niangniang was promoted to Liu Guifei, the biological mother of the fourth prince Liang Concubine Niangniang was renamed Rong Concubine Niangniang, and the biological mother of the seventh prince Shen Fangyi was promoted to the throne like a concubine, the biological mother of the sixth princess, Concubine Hui, was promoted to Zhang Guifei, and the biological mother of the eleventh prince, Lan Guifei, remembered the pain of losing her son, and was promoted to Lan Zhaorong, in addition, the other remaining concubines in the palace also entered the position as appropriate, and the freshly baked He Changzai is still the lowest in the harem.

The concubines in the palace are more or less happy, but there is only one person, the palace maid, the former concubine Niangniang, and now the concubine Rong, but she is very angry, she changed the title from the concubine who was the last concubine of the concubines, but the title has changed, and the others have not changed much, the concubine is the last of the concubines, and Concubine Rong is just under the concubine, ranking second among the concubines, and the first is Shen Fangyi, who gave birth to the seventh prince, and now she is like a concubine.

When the decree came, Concubine Rong was very angry, and accepted the decree with a smile, the eunuch who passed the decree just left, and the back foot Concubine Rong dropped a lot of precious porcelain in her palace, and was furious, and because of this matter, Concubine Rong also became a laughing stock inside and outside the palace, and even the four princes she produced were also looked down upon, Concubine Rong and the four princes, mother and son were very aggrieved, but they couldn't express their dissatisfaction on the surface, and they had to be grateful to Dade, who let them not have a competent foreign family to rely on!

The more this is the case, the more the two of them did not give up, and their desire for power made the four princes and Concubine Rong already addicted, but they didn't know that the emperor's move was actually deliberate.

For what the four princes did, the emperor more or less understood, so the emperor did this deliberately, the purpose was to let Concubine Rong and the four princes, mother and son turn back in time, don't think about things that don't belong to them, but unfortunately Concubine Rong and the four princes obviously misunderstood the emperor's meaning, and only thought that the emperor's move was because they didn't have a powerful foreign family to rely on.

Jiang Xiaolou was in the palace because of the son, when he learned the news of the emperor's sealing of the harem, it was already this afternoon, Jiang Xiaolou was very puzzled, logically speaking, the emperor is now sick and his body is declining, where is the heart to spoil the palace maid, and the emperor is not a faint monarch who is obsessed with women, for so many years, there are only a few examples of pampering the palace maid, how can he spoil a palace maid at this time, and after that, the harem will be sealed?

Jiang Xiaolou wrote his doubts into the content of the letter, and then asked the secret guard to send it to the Five Princes' Mansion and hand it over to the Five Princes.